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jerryvandenbrink/colson: @ Utomo: Your posts, your grandchildren, were my inspiration :) .

Utomo: Wow...I am glad to see you together again with your beloved grandson Kris !

Colson: @ Utomo: Thanks :) . Hope your 2013 may be healthy, happy and prosperous too.

Utomo: Wish you Great Holidays & Happy New Year 2013

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Luke: It would be worth the money, it would redeem Jakarta's historical cultural debt and it would be great to all inhabitants. So [...]

Luke: Hi Colson, Kota Tua has so much to offer once you are there and any improvement and change to the area to make tourist [...]

jerry van den brink/colson: I'll check my email :) .

Uti: Hi, Colson! I sent you an email. Just so you know, in case my email went to spam. :D

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Harry Nizam: Hope to keep it that way :) .

Harry Nizam: Hi Colson, your blog is okay now.

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The director and the aristocrat

So, Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono will – probably – be running for the Indonesian presidency next year:

Promising candidature. He seems to have a number of assets going for him. First of all a reputation of being a relatively able and modern administrator as the governor of his special province, the intangible but powerful [...]

November 20th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: indonesia, politics | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

No, thank you.

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During the euphoria I seem to have said that Europe could do with a politician like Barack Obama. On second thought – and after reading this cover story in one of our weeklies – I realize this is, apart from being nonsensical, also a serious error of judgment.

If he really would be our [...]

November 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: politics | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

President Barack Obama

Barack Obama elected as President of United States. So indeed at the end of the day finally common sense won. Or like Colson said…intellectual won over some populism

Unlike Kerry in 2004 whom was unable to win those big states despite of a growing popular vote. Obama was able to win convincingly with 349 [...]

November 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: politics, religion | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

US Elections: intellectualism beats populism.

In this respect the US of A is still the one and only superpower: all the world is watching todays elections closely.

Barack Obama is likely to be the winner. And if this happens to be tomorrow’s result, not only the majority of the Americans but the majority of the world will be [...]

November 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

VP Jusuf Kalla

The Vice President of the Republik Indonesia in a speech diagnosed the current financial crisis:

“One of the causes of the current crisis is the capitalist system,” he said. “Therefore we should develop a sharia economic system.”

Ah, he may be right about capitalism.  So, is Indonesia going to abolish it? Does this [...]

October 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: economics, indonesia, politics | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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